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Month: December 2021

Beer and Christmas Cheer in a South Wales Steel Town

14 December 2021 by @swanseahistory

Christmas 1935 was a happier-than-usual one in Ebbw Vale. The steel firm of Richard Thomas & Company had just taken over the previously dormant premises of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Company in the town, re-starting production and bringing hope of an end to the unemployment and poverty of the depression years. One … Read more

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